Isaac Abed’s Blog

Week 10

  • 1. What I did this week?
  • Review and thought of how to draft my research
  • 2. What went well
  • Study sessions
  • 3. What I had trouble with
  • Homeworks
  • 4. To do list
  • Draft the research assignment
  • 5. Left off
  • Brainstorming
  • 6. Challenges
  • Time management

How can writers improve their writing strategies?

List of search terms:

  • Writing strategies,
  • Improvement in writing
  • Writers improvement methods
  • Writing improvement ideas
  • Learning to write

Source evaluation Checklist:

  • Who is author?  Her bio: Elizabeth Wardle is Howe Professor of English and Director of the Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University (Oxford, OH). She has directed the writing program at the University of Central Florida and the University of Dayton, experiences that have contributed to her ongoing interest in how learners use and transfer prior knowledge about writing, and how courses and programs can best help students learn to write more effectively. She regularly gives talks and workshops around the U.S. on how threshold concepts and knowledge about writing and knowledge transfer can be used to strengthen writing courses and programs.
  • Audience? Students who want to transfer knowledge to the next course, as well as teachers who should teach a certain way.
  • Purpose? The misconception that students automatically transfer knowledge from course advances.